I suggest you ...

group notifications

I often use the notifications in the notification area for event reminders.
I would like to have the option to group the notfications so that only the number and one symbol is shown in the notification area.
When having several reminders, this helps keeping the notification area not too crowded. The Astrid App has a similar approach for task notifications.

A few minutes ago version 1.0.81 has been released. It contains something like these “group notifications”: If you turn “Settings”, “Reminders”, “Show pop-up window” and “Display multiple events in pop-up window” on you can set “Display pop-up” to “After selecting status bar notification”. Then a single status bar notification will show how many reminders are due and by tapping it you will get a pop-up window that displays these reminders. Please write in the comments here if something doesn’t work correctly or should be changed. Thank you very much!